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1. Red Hat
I have a couple of questions regarding multipath.
If I do vgdisplay vg01, I see it is using 1 PV: /dev/dm-13
If I type multipath -ll I see dm-9, dm-10, dm-11, dm-12, but do not see dm-13. Is my vg01 multipathed? How can I actually know for sure?
Secondly, let's say this time vg01 says... (1 Reply)
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2. Solaris
hi,
just installed solaris 11.1 (11.1.9.5.1) on a sun7410 ZFSSA (x4440 + j4400), but when I enable multipathing with "stmsboot -e", only the 1TB SATA drives inside the j4400 are configured as multipathed vhci / mpxio devices, but the logzillas / ZeusIOPS drives are skipped. the server is... (0 Replies)
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3. AIX
Hi,
I know the concept of multipathing, but would like to know how to configure multipathing in AIX.
or software/driver is by default present in AIX??????
How to find out wheather multipathing is configured in AIX?????
Regards,
Manu (4 Replies)
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4. Red Hat
I have a server running redhat 5.5 and it has one SAN device presented to it as LUN9. How can I clean up the remaining entries. I cannot afford to interupt the service. Please assist.
# multipath -l
mpath0 (36000097000019260298953666633436) dm-11 EMC,SYMMETRIX
\_ round-robin 0
\_ 2:0:0:9 ... (2 Replies)
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5. Solaris
Hello,
I turned on the server multipathing:
# uname -a
SunOS caiman 5.10 Generic_141444-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,T5140
stmsboot -D fp -e
And after a reboot the server, multipathing is not enable:
# stmsboot -L
stmsboot: MPxIO is not enabled
stmsboot: MPxIO disabled
# ls /dev/dsk... (4 Replies)
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6. Solaris
Dear UNIX Gurus
I need to know how to disable MPXIO feature (Inbuilt multipathing software of Solaris 10) as we are going to implemented iSCSI EMC based SAN. I am bit new to this feature so kindly suggest how to disable it
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7. Solaris
Hi,
I saw your post on the forums about how to setup IP multipathing. I wanted your help on the below situation .
I have 2 servers A and B . Now they should be connected to 2 network switches . S1 and S2.
Now is it possible to have IP Multipathing on each of the servers as follows ?
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8. Solaris
Hello All,
I work for a Health care company at a local trauma hospital. I maintain a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PAC's). Basically, any medical images (X-Ray, CT, MRI, Mammo, etc) are stored digitally on the servers for viewing and dictation from diagnostic stations. I took over... (10 Replies)
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9. Solaris
I have solaris 10 sparc. I installed a Qlogic hba card.
This card is connected on a brocade switch and the brocade is connected on 2 different controllers on a Hitachi disk bay.
I formated 2 luns. On my solaris system, i have 4 disk.
How to configure solaris 10 to fix the dual disk view.
... (4 Replies)
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10. IP Networking
I've setup Solaris IP Multipathing under Solaris whenever the hardware to do so was available. I find it amazing though that so few places I've worked at don't use it until I arrive. I wanted to find out if I'm running into all the exceptions, or is it really not being used? ... (3 Replies)
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scsi_vhci(7D) Devices scsi_vhci(7D)
NAME
scsi_vhci - SCSI virtual host controller interconnect driver
DESCRIPTION
The scsi_vhci driver is a SCSA compliant pseudo nexus driver that supports Solaris operating system I/O multipathing services for SCSI-3
devices. This driver introduces a fundamental restructuring of the Solaris device tree to enable a multipath device to be represented as
single device instance rather than as an instance per physical path as in earlier Solaris versions.
The multipath SCSI target devices managed by this driver are identified and represented by using SCSI-3 VPD page(0x83) as the device's
unit address.
Symbolic links in /dev/[r]dsk continue to adhere to the cNtNdNsN format. cN is the logical controller number assigned to this driver
instance. tN is the global unique identifier (GUID) of the multipath target device (64/128 bits), represented as hexadecimal numbers.
The following is an example of a system with a A5000 storage array:
...
/dev/rdsk/c4t200000203709C3F5d0s0 -> ../../devices/scsi_vhci/
ssd@g200000203709c3f5:a,raw
...
/dev/rdsk/c4t200000203709C3F5d0s7 -> ../../devices/scsi_vhci/
ssd@g200000203709c3f5:h,ra
...
The following is an example of a system with a T300 storage array:
...
/dev/rdsk/c1t60020F200000033939C2C2B60008D4AEd0s0 -> ../../devices/
scsi_vhci/ssd@g60020f200000033939a2c2b60008d4ae:a,raw
...
/dev/rdsk/c1t60020F200000033939A2C2B60008D4AEd0s7 -> ../../devices/
scsi_vhci/ssd@g60020f200000033939a2c2b60008d4ae:h,raw
The scsi_vhci driver receives naming and transport services from one or more physical HBA (host bus adapter) devices. To support multi-
pathing, a physical HBA driver must comply with the multipathing services provided by this driver.
The scsi_vhci driver supports the standard functions provided by the SCSA interface.
Configuration
The scsi_vhci driver can be configured by defining properties in the scsi_vhci.conf file.
The scsi_vhci driver supports the following property:
device-type-scsi-options-list
To add a third-party (non-Sun) symmetric storage device to run under scsi_vhci (and thereby take advantage of Solaris I/O multipathing),
you add the vendor ID and product ID for the device, as those strings are returned by the SCSI Inquiry command. As shipped, the
scsi_vhci.conf file contains, in part:
# device-type-scsi-options-list =
# "SUN SENA", "symmetric-option";
# symmetric-option=0x1000000;
For example,to add a device from a vendor with the ID of "Acme" and a product ID of "MSU", you would add:
device-type-scsi-options-list =
"Acme MSU", "symmetric-option";
symmetric-option=0x1000000;
In addition to "Acme," you also might want to add another entry, for example, a device from "XYZ" vendor with a product ID of "ABC:"
device-type-scsi-options-list =
"Acme MSU", "symmetric-option",
"XYZ ABC", "symmetric-option";
symmetric-option=0x1000000;
FILES
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/scsi_vhci
64-bit kernel module (SPARC).
/kernel/drv/scsi_vhci
32-bit kernel module (x86).
/kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf
Driver configuration file.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |PCI-based systems |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWckr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
eeprom(1M), prtconf(1M), attributes(5), fcp(7D), fctl(7D), fp(7D), ssd(7D), scsi_abort(9F), scsi_ifgetcap(9F), scsi_pkt(9S),
scsi_reset(9F), scsi_transport(9F), scsi_inquiry(9S), scsi_extended_sense(9S)
Writing Device Drivers
Small Computer System Interface-3 (SCSI-3)
NOTES
In previous releases, the scsi_vhci.conf file supported the mpxio-disable property, which allowed you to disable Solaris I/O multipathing
on a system-wide basis. This property is not present in the current release of the Solaris operating system. Multipathing is always
enabled in scsi_vhci. If you want to disable multipathing, use the mechanisms provided by the HBA drivers. See fp(7D).
In previous releases, Solaris I/O multipathing was also known as MPxIO and Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager (STMS).
SunOS 5.10 2 Dec 2004 scsi_vhci(7D)